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UNITED STATES Patented February 23, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

A'IVVELL J. BLACKEORD, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN STOVE COMPANY, OE JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATIONV OF NEW JERSEY.

LIGHTING-RING..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,115, dated February 23, 1904.

Application filed June 3, 1903. Serial No. 159,955. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, ATWELL J. BLAGKFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lighting-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in lighting-rings which are used in connection with what is known in the art as wickless blue-flame oil-stovesg and the object of my invention is to produce an improved lightingring having the construction hereinafter fully shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective v'iew of a lighting-ring embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through one side of the lightingring. Eig. 3 is a side view of a` portion of the lighting ring with a part of the asbestos threads removed. Fig. t is an enlarged crosssectional view of my improved lighter.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, and which is composed f a fabric made up of interwoven meshes of wire and asbestos thread or cord, ct indicates the wire meshes of the lighting-ring, and b the asbestos thread or cord, which is shown interwoven with the wire mesh. Preferably the asbestos'threads or cords run vertically or, in other words, 4in a direction transverse the ring, and preferably the wire which composes the wire mesh extends in vertical and horizontal directions in `respect to the lighting-ring.

In operation the oil travels upward through the lighting-ring by capillary action between the threads of asbestos and the threads of wire and also through the asbestos threads themselves. The wire mesh also serves to give shape and to retain the lighting member in its proper shape in addition to its capillary action in connection with 'the threads or cords Aof asbestos which lare interwoven therewith. Therefore the wire mesh-serves the aforesaid two functions.

In practice it is found that a lighting-ring cause the oil to travel upward by capillary action when it has been used for some time and is covered with carbon, which is not true of many forms of lighting-rings now used.

It will be observed that some of the wire threads of the wire mesh extend in a direction across the width of the lighting-ring and have projecting ends between which the asbestos threads extend, whereby a lighting edge is provided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An initial lighting device for hydrocarbon-burners, composed of interwoven threads of asbestos and wire whereby both the wire and asbestos threads form the side-exposed surfaces thereof, the wire threads being arranged in crosswise relation in respect to themselves.

2. A horizontally-arranged initial lighting A device for hydrocarbon-burners, composed of interwoven threads of asbestos and wire, whereby the asbestos and wire threads form the side-exposed surfaces thereof, the asbestos threads extending vertically and the wire threads extending in erosswise relation in respect to themselves and in respect to said asbestos threads.

3. An initial lighting device for hydrocar-l ATVVELL J. BLACKFORD.

vWitnesses:

E. A. SCHNEIDER, HUGH J. MCBRJDE. 

